11400 or 5600x canada

[Slamo]

Budget (including currency): 500-600

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: New world, Valorant, Streaming to Twitch.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

already have everything else need to decide CPU/MOBO 

GTX 970, DDR4 CL16 3600mhz crucial ballistix ram, 650 PSU already have from previous build. 

 

debating between, 

Ryzen 5 5600x - 350$ CAD

B550 Tomahawk- 220$ CAD

= 570$ CAD

or 

 

I5 11400 -249$ CAD

MSI Z590-A PRO ATX - 179$ CAD

=428$ CAD

 

Also the I5 11600kf is on sale for 299. 

 

any input is much appricated, have a great day all! 

[mr fobs]

A 5600x out performs an 11400 hence why its more expensive. You won't see much of a difference with your current graphics card between the two as both of them will be able to feed information to it faster than it can process it. However if you plan to eventually upgrade your GPU, I would recommend the 5600x. It will not only out perform the 11400 because of it being better overall, it will also take better advantage of your 3600MHz Ram. Also are their cheaper B550 MoBos than the tomahawk? I am not familiar with CAD pricing, in the us you can get B550 Motherboards for less than $150 that are just fine for the 5600x.

 

Example

[Jurrunio]

MSI's B550 Gaming Plus is a more comparable board to the Z590-A Pro, which is CAD 160 according to PCPP ca. 

 

Would not go for 11th gen unless it's much cheaper than it is now. It's slower and have less (and less good) upgrade path than Ryzen. Hopefully it will be so after 12th gen's budget choices arrive because the base i5 and B chipset board from 12th gen will aim that this budget bracket

[Slamo]

only other b550 boards that are available near by are the 

Asus b550 prime-plus board for 160 

or 

MPG B550 Gaming plus for 175 

 

both have meh review online 

 

Thanks all!  

[Space646]

14 minutes ago, Slamo said:

only other b550 boards that are available near by are the 

Asus b550 prime-plus board for 160 

or 

MPG B550 Gaming plus for 175 

 

both have meh review online 

 

Thanks all!  

I would recommend the Ryzen 5600x and the ASUS motherboard, because the ASUS is cheaper, but still good

[Jurrunio]

21 minutes ago, Slamo said:

both have meh review online 

ratings from customers have a problem, those with good experience are way less likely than those with bad experience to leave a review behind. The ratings you see dont mean too much, no matter it's good or bad.

 

5 minutes ago, Space646 said:

I would recommend the Ryzen 5600x and the ASUS motherboard, because the ASUS is cheaper, but still good

Asus is cheaper, is good enough for a 6 core, but it's not good. The VRM is the same 4 phase full of mosfets just like B450 boards which are significantly worse. More than 15 CAD worse.

[Space646]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

ratings from customers have a problem, those with good experience are way less likely than those with bad experience to leave a review behind. The ratings you see dont mean too much, no matter it's good or bad.

 

Asus is cheaper, is good enough for a 6 core, but it's not good. The VRM is the same 4 phase full of mosfets just like B450 boards which are significantly worse. More than 15 CAD worse.

I also recommended the ASUS, because I have good experience with ASUS

[Jonathan Lee]

For the price difference, I would say the 11400f is a better deal. You'll lose about 10% performance. However, for 100 less I would say it's a better deal. You can also consider going up to a 10/11700f which performs about the same as 5600x, but with two more cores.

[Slamo]

Ended up with a 5600x for 345$ CAD, GIGABYTE B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 for 140$, was like 550$ CAD after tax. 

once again thanks all for the information!